WASHINGTON (AP) – Congress emphatically approved legislation Friday preserving jobs on transportation projects from coast to coast and avoiding interest rate increases on new loans to millions of college students, giving lawmakers campaign-season bragging rights on what may be their biggest economic achievement before the November elections. The bill sent […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – A pair of constitutionally questionable measures and legislation designed to crack down on no-fault auto insurance fraud are among about 150 new Florida laws going into effect Sunday. A law that bans state and local governments from hiring companies that do business in Cuba and Syria […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul. The decision means the huge overhaul, still only partly in effect, will proceed and pick up momentum over the next several years, affecting the way that […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold his health care overhaul is a “victory for people all over the country” and will make their lives more secure. Obama says the decision upholds the fundamental principle that in America – the wealthiest nation on earth […]

Florida A&M’s Board of Trustees Wednesday granted a $1 million cash infusion for a “marketing and communication campaign” to restore FAMU’s image in the wake of the Marching “100” hazing scandal in November 2011. But trustees insisted that that administrators spend the next two weeks polishing the communications plan.  Trustees approved the amended […]

    TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – Arizona’s police chiefs and county sheriffs hoped a U.S. Supreme Court ruling would settle their long-running debate on what role, if any, they should play in immigration enforcement. Instead, the justices’ decision to uphold the state’s “show me your papers” statute has left them […]

BEIRUT (AP) – Syria’s elite Republican Guard forces clashed with rebels just outside Damascus Tuesday in some of the most intense fighting involving the special forces guarding the capital since an uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime began last year, activists said. The clashes erupted near Republican Guard housing compounds […]

Leon County saw hours of nonstop rain from Tropical Storm Debby this weekend. Portions of Interstate 10 were closed early Tuesday due to flooding, as Debby continues to move slowly across Apalachee Bay towards the eastern Big Bend. The National Hurricane Center said Debby was about 85 miles west of […]

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) – For years, the children Jerry Sandusky had preyed upon kept quiet about what the former Penn State assistant football coach did to them in echoing shower stalls, empty hotel rooms and the muffled confines of his basement bedroom. Late Friday, after a swift trial and less […]

Florida’s Board of Governors this week appointed financial executive Cleve Warren as the newest member of Florida A&M’s Board of Trustees. Warren earned his bachelor’s at the University of North Florida and his MBA at Jacksonville University. Trustee  William Jennings will longer be a trustee later this year.  “The Board of […]